Geodesics in Randers spaces of constant curvature

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-06-04051-7zbMath1112.53013arXivmath/0501358MaRDI QIDQ3420375

Colleen Robles

Publication date: 1 February 2007

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501358

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsconstant curvatureFinsler geometryRanders metricZermelo navigationinfinitesimal homothety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40)

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